Are cinema-goers ready for a bloodthirsty Betty Boop? The question will be answered later this year when the Jazz Age cartoon icon is rebooted as a vicious villain in a low-budget horror film.

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

A host of characters, movies, and songs created in the early 1930s will enter the public domain at midnight on Jan. 1, 2026.

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Betty Boop and Nancy Drew are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of intellectual ...